For the Agreement

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For the Agreement
Per l'Entesa
Leader Josep Benet
Founded1979 (1979)
Dissolved1979 (1979)
Preceded by Agreement of the Catalans
Ideology Communism
Marxism-Leninism
Republicanism
Political position Left-wing
MembersSee list of members

For the Agreement (Catalan : Per l'Entesa) was a Catalan electoral alliance formed by the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC) and Party of Labour of Catalonia (PTC) to contest the 1979 Spanish Senate election. The PSUC had formed the Agreement of the Catalans in the preceding election together with the Socialist Party of Catalonia–Congress (PSC–C), the Catalan Socialist Federation (FSC), Republican Left of Catalonia (ERC) and Catalan State (EC), but the alliance broke up into two in early 1979, the other part coalescing around the New Agreement alliance. [1] [2]

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Composition

Party
Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia (PSUC)
Party of Labour of Catalonia (PTC)

Electoral performance

Senate

Senate
ElectionCatalonia
Votes %Seats+/–
1979 Candidates 1
Candidates 2
Candidates 3
704,355
604,041
524,545
24.32%
20.86%
18.11%
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References

  1. Rusiñol, Pere (13 January 2000). "Una "Entesa" con menos presencia de independientes". El País (in Spanish). Barcelona. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
  2. "Entesa dels Catalans". www.enciclopedia.cat (in Catalan). Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana. Retrieved 16 July 2020.